Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Movie: Chou Yuugou! Toki wo Koeta Kizuna

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Synonyms: Yugioh, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Ultra Fusion! Bonds Over Time and Space, Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Anniversary Special, 10th Anniversary Gekijouban, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcend Time, Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time

Japanese: 劇場版遊☆戯☆王～超融合! 時空を越えた絆～

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 23, 2010

Producers: TV Tokyo, Nihon Ad Systems

Licensors: 4Kids Entertainment, Flatiron Film Company

Studios: Gallop

Source: Manga

Genre: Adventure

Themes: Strategy Game, Time Travel

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 49 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Popularity: #3140

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While riding with Jack Atlas and Crow Hogan, Yuusei Fudou's Stardust Dragon is captured by Paradox, a mysterious Turbo Duelist from the future, during a Turbo Duel and turned into a Sin Monster. With the help of the Crimson Dragon, Yuusei chases after Paradox as he enters a time slip, ending up in the past. During this time, Paradox duels against Jaden Yuki, who is still able to use the powers of Yubel and The Supreme King. However, by this time Paradox had also captured Cyber End Dragon and Rainbow Dragon and overwhelms Jaden. He is saved thanks to Yuusei and the Crimson Dragon. Jaden informs Yuusei of Paradox's true intentions. By stealing various monsters from across time and turning them dark, he plans to kill Maximillion Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters, preventing the game from being created and causing the events of all three series to never happen.

Yuusei and Jaden agree to pursue Paradox, which leads them to the past and causes a meeting with the King of Games, Yuugi Mutou. However, by the time Yuusei and Jaden arrive, Paradox had already attacked his time, supposedly killing both Pegasus and Yuugi's grandpa, and had also managed to steal Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Red-Eyes Black Dragon. After explaining everything to Yuugi, he agrees to fight with Yuusei and Jaden against Paradox in the ultimate three-on-one duel to free the trapped monsters and save both the world and time itself before it's too late.

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Parent story:	Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Duel Monsters GX, Yu☆Gi☆Oh! 5D's
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Characters & Voice Actors

Yami Yuugi

Main

Kazama, Shunsuke
Japanese

Yuuki, Juudai

Main

KENN
Japanese

Fudou, Yuusei

Main

Miyashita, Yuya
Japanese

Mutou, Yuugi

Main

Kazama, Shunsuke
Japanese

Paradox

Main

Tamura, Atsushi
Japanese

Izayoi, Aki

Supporting

Kinoshita, Ayumi
Japanese

Atlas, Jack

Supporting

Hoshino, Takanori
Japanese

Crawford, Pegasus J.

Supporting

Takasugi Jay, Jiro
Japanese

Mana

Supporting

Nakao, Yuki
Japanese

Yubel

Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi
Japanese

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Haigney, Michael

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Takeshita, Kenichi

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Hiramitsu, Takuya

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Oonishi, Shougo

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Aug 14, 2011

Miharu-Kun

Recommended

This Yu-Gi-Oh! special/film brings together the main protagonists from each of the franchises anime’s (excl. Zexal) together to fight a time-travelling evil villain named Paradox. Yusei, Jaden and Yugi must now defeat him in a duel before he destroys all their worlds.

With a clichéd and predictable story, I think that only a Yu-Gi-Oh fan could truly enjoy and appreciate this. Bonds Beyond Time could of easily featured appearances by Kaiba, Joey, Téa, Tristian etc. but only manages to squeeze in the main characters, which was disappointing.

All of the original English voice actors retain their roles (I think) and for a 4Kids! Dub, it was ...

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Jul 25, 2014

quukii

Mixed Feelings

It’s time to duel, this time with the protagonists from the first three Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series. But how does this 10th anniversary movie for the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise stack up? As a note, prior to watching this movie I have only seen the first series.

A mysterious figure is traveling through time and causing problems involving the destruction of Duel Monsters and the world, and the three Yu-Gi-Oh! heroes must join together with the magical power of time travel to defeat this new nemesis in an epic card game. It is a simple story, which is fitting of a movie that only spans around 45 minutes, excluding ... the credits. There are various moments in the movie in which I think to myself “What?” or “This makes no sense,” but this is Yu-Gi-Oh!, so a good deal of suspension of disbelief is required.

The heroes of the story are Yugi Mutou, Judai Yuki, and Yusei Fudo. The movie largely portrays Yusei, the hero of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, as the most important of the protagonists, and he is given the most screen time of the three characters. This makes sense as the movie first played while the 5Ds series was still airing. The movie assumes that the viewer is already familiar with the characters, though it is still easy to get the basic gist of the characters without watching their respective series. The villain is Paradox, who I found quite dull in all respects aside from his character design, which is absolutely ridiculous yet simultaneously cool. He does not have much of a personality besides being generically “evil” and simply fills the role of the necessary big baddie of the story.

A good portion of the movie consists of a duel, so it is a shame that duel has to be so incredibly bland and uninteresting. It feels like an advertisement for the new “Sin” (“Malefic” in English) cards which are introduced by Paradox. Also, the duel is more of a card showcase than a duel, as the most famous monsters from the first three shows are all brought out onto the field. If it just makes you happy seeing Black Magician and Stardust Dragon on the field together, then good for you. But I feel that the movie’s necessity of having all of these monsters present really restricts the duel from becoming something unpredictable, strategic, and fun.

On the technical side of things, the art is good and the quality is consistent throughout the film. I’m not a big fan of CGI in anime in general, but it is done decently in the movie. With regard to sound, I enjoyed the inclusion of Yugi’s main theme and what I presume to be Judai’s and Yusei’s themes, which played on their respective turns in the duel.

Honestly, this movie is just a slapdash excuse to bring together the Yu-Gi-Oh! main characters. The story is predictable, the duel is not very exciting, and the villain is a bore. I feel like the movie could have done better with a longer running time; at the very least, more detail on Parodox’s plight could have helped his character. Bonds Beyond Time is a fan service movie for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans and hardly anything more. In the end, I’d give it a half-hearted recommendation for fans of any of the first three Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, but no one else.

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Nov 21, 2011

Pixy-Stix

Not Recommended

This movie inspired me.

This movie has probably changed my perspective on the world.

This movie is so shocking, it needs to be seen to be believed.

This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life.

Story: The story is, in a sentence, non-sensical, plot-hole ridden and stupid beyond comprehension. I find it hilarious the villain's name is Paradox. The writers of this crapfest have probably never seen any piece of fiction or anything involving time travel in their lives. The amount of Time Paradoxes are immense. Sonic 06, eat your heart out. You won't even need to think about it, they're incredibly blatant. Anyone whose ... seen Back to the Future will cringe as they break every convention of time travel related story-telling or even just logic. Even so, the plot is almost non-existant. Half of the movie is the climactic duel between the heroes and Paradox. The other half is just them running around, following Paradox through time and watching things explode in gimmicky THREE-DEE. The pacing is all over the map. Fast, then slow, then fast. Then it's over. I still felt like basically nothing had happened. Running, card game, over. Another problem is how cliche it is. If you are an anime fan or a movie buff or anyone who enjoys fiction in general, you will be able to piece this movie together from other (probably better) movies. Just with better character designs and more logic. The writing is shoddy, the dialogue is stilted and bad in both languages. But what really annoys me is that none of this movie makes sense. I've seen some damn stupid movies/movies/books etc. in my day, but this takes the cake, eats it, craps it out and eats it again. Repeating the process ad infinitum. It doesn't matter if you've watched Yu-Gi-Oh!, GX or 5D's, dubbed/subbed or whatever, this movie doesn't add up. The time travel was handled so poorly I can barely comprehend it. And it wraps it up with a forced, awful friendship speech. Gag me with a knife.

Art: Yeah, the art in this movie is ridiculous. Yugi's, Yusei and Jaden and basically everyone else all have inane, usually multicoloured, hair. It's so distracting and I have the feeling the author put that in just to make them seem more memorable. All subtlety is lost and Yusei being completely serious while sporting that retarded, crab-like hair was truly surreal. The actual animation wasn't bad. It's not as fluid as it should be and doesn't feel like the step up from the show it should be. It's not KyoAni, it's not Ghibli, it's not BONES, it's just Toei.

Sound: The dub is passable. I don't care what you think, it is. If anything, the dub is better than the movie. The sub is alright too, it's not like the movie deserves amazing voice talent. The music is also fine. It hits alright notes when you should be 'feeling' something. I actually had to rely on the music to tell me how to feel. Maybe I just have a dried up apple for a heart. Either way.

Character: Just as bad as the story. Any and all characterization relies on you having seen the other three shows. That's fine and all, but it's still gut-wrenchingly awful. These characters are so one-note. They never change in any way. I know it's not impossible to change or at least affect well established characters in long-running Shonen series, watch the sixth One Piece movie if you don't believe me. It's not even fun to watch them. You would think the concept of seeing these three characters just being in the same room would be fun, but they barely interact with each other. That, right there, negates the point of the entire movie. What's the point of Jaden, Yusei and Yugi all being together if they don't interact with each other? That card game and friendship speech just aren't enough. Oh, and I haven't even gotten to Paradox. He is, easily, the worst villain in the history of, not just anime. Not just cinema. Not just animation. But fiction in general. His goal is retarded and vaguely explained. I can't go further because of spoilers, let's just say that when he tells you, your mind will explode. His motivation for wanting his retarded goal is also retarded. Easily the logical lowpoint of the whole movie. And that is saying something.

Enjoyment: With the nonsense plot and baffling characters, you would think this movie would hurt to watch it for even a moment. But, you would think wrong. This movie is the greatest thing I've ever seen. It's awful. Definitely. But it smashes the Uncanny Valley so hard I couldn't help but love it. It's not 'So Bad it's Good', that would imply it has redeem qualities story-wise, when it doesn't. It's not 'So Bad it's Horrible', because it isn't painful to watch. This movie is in a class of its own. This movie is condensed nonsense, taking itself seriously and creating a void in logic so deep, that is sucks you in and forces you to laugh. This is honestly, one of the funniest things I've ever seen. You will laugh at the character designs. You will laugh at Paradox's horribleness. You will laugh all through-out the 30 minute long card game to decide the fate of the universe. You will love the nonsense and you will laugh violently when the movie tries to make you feel something through the struggles of these cardboard cut-out characters with dumb hair getting you feel something with their predictable, easily solved because time travel, dilemmas. This movie is so much fun and you shouldn't pass it up. It's still horrible. Don't get me wrong. But it is a special kind of horrible.

And that's what this whole movie is. A special kind of horrible.

Story: F
Characters: F
Art: B-
Sound: B-
Enjoyment: A+

Overall: F

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